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DiabetesiNSPiREDNCT04041375

Veteran Support and Resources for Diabetes

A study testing iNSPiRED in people with Diabetes, run by VA Office of Research and Development at 1 site in United States.

Completed

Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

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Trial summary

Patients with diabetes are often challenged by the routine of managing their diabetes, and may experience both stress and medical problems. Diabetes-related medical problems and stress often happen together and affect peoples' ability to live a full, happy and healthy life. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Any age
Conditions the study is for
Diabetes
What is being tested?
iNSPiRED
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
219 participants
Where
1 siteUnited States
Study dates
1 Oct 2019to 9 Aug 2022
Phase
Interventional
Are there results?
Yes, posted in the registrySummary in the doctors' view

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages Any age
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Child, Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Veteran
  • Diagnosis of type 2 DM, per self-report
  • Moderate diabetes-related distress (Diabetes Distress Scale [DDS2] mean score of 3 or greater)

Who cannot join

  • Lack of reliable access to a telephone
  • Cognitive, sensory, or other impairment that prevents use of a telephone
  • Current participation in another diabetes-related counseling or self-management program

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

United States1 site
  • Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX

    Houston, Texas, 77030-4211

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About this study

Official title: Using Peer Navigators to Increase Access to VA and Community Resources for Veterans With Diabetes-related Distress

Patients with diabetes are often challenged by the routine of managing their diabetes, and may experience both stress and medical problems. Diabetes-related medical problems and stress often happen together and affect peoples' ability to live a full, happy and healthy life. Because of this, programs that help with medical problems and stress by teaching ways to better manage diabetes and stress may improve the lives of those with diabetes.

Many excellent programs are available in the VA and in the community that help persons with diabetes better manage their medical problems and stress, but often times Veterans have trouble finding these programs.

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The purpose of the study is to see if a telephone-based coaching program improves the physical and emotional health of Veterans with diabetes more than use of a directory of community and VA resources and no coaching. The Veterans who receive the directory of community and VA resources will be given this at the beginning of the study and will access resources as they see fit. Those in the coaching program will be coached by a Veteran with knowledge of diabetes, mental health and community resources who will help them connect to care in the VA and/or community depending on their preference. Examples of resources available in the VA and community include mental health care and programs to help with diet, exercise and learning about how to better manage diabetes.

Veterans who are interested in participating and pass screening will be enrolled in the study for about 6 months. Each enrolled Veteran will have a 50% chance of being enrolled in the coaching group and a 50% chance of being enrolled in the directory group (like the flip of a coin). Both groups will be asked to complete several questionnaires about their health and well-being by telephone. This will occur at the beginning of the study and three and six months later. The questionnaires will take about an hour to complete each time.

Read the detailed description

Diabetes-related distress, the negative emotional impact of living with diabetes (DM), is a powerful predictor of psychosocial functioning, treatment adherence, and glycemic control. Practice guidelines and consensus statements call for innovative approaches to address DM-related distress. Despite availability of self-management and psychosocial interventions to reduce DM related distress, these interventions are underutilized due to constraints in time, finances, motivation, and resource-awareness. Interventions that leverage traditional medical care and community-based health promotion programs (e.g., DM self-management education (DSME) programs) may enhance the ability of Veterans with DM to engage with a broad and accessible range of resources. Ensuring that Veterans with DM receive adequate self-care support requires interventions that (1) attend to both medical care and diabetes-related distress and (2) improve Veterans' access and engagement with DSME and traditional medical/mental care. Integrating VA and community health services and DSME resources is innovative and affords great opportunities to enhance Veteran outcomes and build VA community partnerships. Engagement of Veterans and community organizations in developing and delivering care responds to the 2016 HSR\&D high-priority domain of Health Care Systems Change and aligns with the 2017 VA Under Secretary's priorities of Greater Choice (offering community and VA resources), Efficiency (community and VA coordination), and Timeliness (telephone delivery).

This community-VA partnership and three-month Veteran peer coaching intervention (iNSPiRED) aims to enhance psychological well-being and diabetes self-management behavior in Veterans with DM by facilitating access to and use of healthcare and health promotion resources. The intervention focuses on reducing cognitive and practical barriers to use of services by engaging Veteran peers as coaches and navigators, and by encouraging engagement in health promotion and healthcare services in the VA and the greater community. A secondary goal, integral to the main goal, is to strengthen and integrate VHA partnerships with community-based organizations and Veteran Support Organizations (VSO's).

This is a single-blind, parallel group randomized trial of a 3-month peer navigation intervention for Veterans with DM and elevated levels of DM-related distress. The investigators will recruit Veterans with DM-related distress through existing help-seeking channels within and outside of the VA in partnership with community agencies, VSO's, and the Houston VAMC. Eligible Veterans will be assigned at random to the iNSPiRED intervention (peer navigation and coaching) versus usual care (written resource materials and encouragement to continue follow-up with healthcare providers). Consistent with the focus on the overall emotional impact of DM, the PRIMARY OUTCOME is DM-related distress (DM Distress Scale). In previous studies the DDS has shown strong relationships with psychological symptoms, self-management behaviors, and objective measures of glycemic control. SECONDARY OUTCOMES include anxiety symptoms (Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale), depression symptoms (Patient Health Questionnaire-8), DM self-management behaviors (DM Self-Management Scale), and self-reported use and new use of VA or community resources. In addition to participant-level outcomes, the investigators will also assess STAKEHOLDER OUTCOMES through a mixed methods process evaluation. The objective will be to measure the impact of stakeholder engagement activities on development and sustainability of VA-community partnerships, trust and communication, and capacity building. Assessment of primary and secondary endpoints will occur at baseline, post-intervention, and at 6 months.

If this project meets intended goals, the investigators will partner with VHA Office of Community Engagement and VHA Specialty Care to implement the intervention for DM and other chronic diseases.

Conditions
Diabetes
Being tested
iNSPiRED, Usual Care
Keywords
peer support, mental health, diabetes self-management, community-based participatory research
Medical subject headings
Diabetes Mellitus, Psychological Well-Being

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • iNSPiREDBehavioural

    Also called Veteran Support and Resources for Diabetes

    The peer intervention will include approximately 5 to 6 contacts over a 3-month period. Peer navigators are responsible for providing emotional and social support, normalizing the difficulty of living with DM, modeling help-seeking behaviors, and connecting patients with VHA and/or CBOs to address mental health and DM self-management needs. Peer coaches are not responsible for health education directly; rather, they encourage patients to use appropriate programs in which mental health and DM self-management services are provided.

  • Usual CareOther

    Veterans randomized to the usual care condition will be encouraged to follow-up with their primary care provider and/or specialty providers for management of their health conditions. They will also receive a packet of printed information that includes a list of self-management support resources in the VHA and the local community. They will receive no further specific recommendations

Study groups in NCT04041375
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
iNSPiREDExperimentalPeer coaching intervention
Receives: Behavioral: iNSPiRED
Usual CareActive comparatorDirectory of resources and encouragement to follow-up with Primary Care Physician
Receives: Other: Usual Care

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Change in Diabetes Distress Screening Scale (DDS17)

    The content of the DDS17 was developed with the input of people with DM and clinicians with expertise in DM. Items are grouped into 4 subscales: Emotional Burden ("Feeling angry, scared and/or depressed when I think about living with diabetes"), Physician-related Distress ("Feeling that my doctor doesn't take my concerns seriously enough"), Regimen-related Distress ("Not feeling confident in my day-to-day ability to manage diabetes"), and Interpersonal Distress ("Feeling that friends or family don't give me the emotional support that I would like"). Items are rated on a Likert scale indicating the extent to which each factor is distressing, from 1 (no problem) to 6 (a serious problem). The instrument is scored by computing the average value across items to obtain a total score and four subscale scores. Minimum score 1. Maximum score 6. Higher scores indicate worse distress.

    Measured: Baseline, Month 3, Month 6

Secondary outcomes (5)
  1. Change in Summary of Diabetes Self-Care Activities Assessment (SDSCA)

    The SDSCA measure is a brief self-report questionnaire of diabetes self-management. It assesses the number of days per week in which respondents engage in diabetes health-related behaviors in the areas of general diet, fruits and vegetable intake, fat intake, physical activity, blood-glucose testing, and foot care. and smoking. Minimum score 0. Maximum score 7 (for each area). Higher scores indicate better self care. Smoking in the last week is also assessed as a binary variable (see separate entry).

    Measured: Baseline, Month 3, Month 6

  2. Change in Summary of Diabetes Self-Care Activities Assessment (SDSCA)--Number of Participants Who Smoked

    The SDSCA measure is a brief self-report questionnaire of diabetes self-management. Any smoking in the last week is assessed as a binary variable. Minimum score 0 (did not smoke). Maximum score 1 (smoked). See separate entry for SDSCA items that measure the number of days per week an activity is performed. Reported counts reflect number of participants who indicated smoking in the last week.

    Measured: Baseline, Month 3, Month 6

  3. Change in Patient Health Questionnaire-8 (PHQ-8)

    The PHQ-8 is an eight-item questionnaire that assesses the frequency of depression and mood-related symptoms (e.g., "Feeling down, depressed, or hopeless," "Trouble falling or staying asleep, or sleeping too much") over the past 2 weeks. Minimum score 0. Maximum score 24. Higher scores indicate worse depression.

    Measured: Baseline, Month 3, Month 6

  4. Change in Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 Questionnaire (GAD-7)

    The GAD-7 is a 7-item questionnaire developed as a companion to the PHQ-9 to screen for generalized anxiety disorder and other common anxiety disorders. Items assess the frequency of anxiety symptoms (e.g., "Worrying too much about different things," "Feeling afraid as if something awful might happen") over the past 2 weeks. Minimum score 0. Maximum score 21. Higher scores indicate worse anxiety.

    Measured: Baseline, Month 3, Month 6

  5. Change in Use of Community Resources (no to Yes)

    The investigators will record the Veteran's self-report of any use of community-based resources including mental health care and counseling, DM classes, nutrition services, primary care appointments, and other health-related services. Dichotomous. Yes = care in the community. No= no care in the community

    Measured: Baseline, Month 6

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted1 Aug 2019
  2. Study start1 Oct 2019
  3. Primary completion9 Aug 2022
  4. Study completion9 Aug 2022

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase N/A
Primary purpose
Health services research
Allocation
Randomised
Intervention model
Parallel groups
Model description
This is a single-blind, parallel group, randomized trial of a 3-month peer-navigation intervention for Veterans with DM and elevated levels of diabetes-related distress. Participants will be assigned at random (see below) to the intervention (peer navigation with follow-up) or usual care (print materials and encouragement to continue follow-up with health care providers). Assessment of primary, secondary and intermediate end points will occur pre-intervention at baseline and post-intervention at 3 and 6 months.
Masking
Double blind
Who is masked
Investigator, Outcomes assessor
Enrolment
219 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT04041375
Sponsor's protocol ID
IIR 17-221
Acronym
iNSPiRED
Status last verified
Oct 2024
First submitted
26 Jul 2019
Last updated
7 Nov 2024
Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
Yes: Final data sets underlying publications from this research will be made available to the public in electronic form. The investigators will provide a de-identified, quantitative dataset compliant with VA data security policy to the public upon request to the principal investigator. Qualitative data cannot be shared because it has identifiable, sensitive information that cannot be practicably de-identified. Notices advising the public of the availability of the dataset will appear in all publications authored by our research team.

Publications

  • Cully JA, Hundt NE, Fletcher T, Sansgiry S, Zeno D, Kauth MR, Kunik ME, Sorocco K. Brief Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Depression in Community Clinics: A Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Trial. Psychiatr Serv. 2024 Mar 1;75(3):237-245. doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.20220582. Epub 2023 Sep 7.

    PubMed 37674395
  • Dawson DB, Mohankumar R, Puran D, Nevedal A, Maguen S, Timko C, Kunik ME, Breland JY. Weight Management Treatment Representations: A Novel Use of the Common Sense Model. J Clin Psychol Med Settings. 2023 Dec;30(4):884-892. doi: 10.1007/s10880-023-09946-4. Epub 2023 Feb 24.

    PubMed 36828990
  • Chen GJ, Kunik ME, Marti CN, Choi NG. Cost-effectiveness of Tele-delivered behavioral activation by Lay counselors for homebound older adults with depression. BMC Psychiatry. 2022 Oct 17;22(1):648. doi: 10.1186/s12888-022-04272-9.

    PubMed 36253766
  • Mishra RK, Park C, Momin AS, Rafaei NE, Kunik M, York MK, Najafi B. Care4AD: A Technology-Driven Platform for Care Coordination and Management: Acceptability Study in Dementia. Gerontology. 2023;69(2):227-238. doi: 10.1159/000526219. Epub 2022 Sep 12.

    PubMed 36096091
  • Boykin DM, Wray LO, Funderburk JS, Holliday S, Kunik ME, Kauth MR, Fletcher TL, Mignogna J, Roberson RB 3rd, Cully JA. Leveraging the ExpandNet framework and operational partnerships to scale-up brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in VA primary care clinics. J Clin Transl Sci. 2022 Jul 20;6(1):e95. doi: 10.1017/cts.2022.430. eCollection 2022.

    PubMed 36003211
  • Choi NG, Choi BY, Marti CN, Kunik ME. Depression/anxiety symptoms and self-reported difficulty managing medication regimen among community-dwelling older adults. Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 2022 Sep-Oct;78:50-57. doi: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2022.07.005. Epub 2022 Jul 15.

    PubMed 35853418

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A study testing iNSPiRED in people with Diabetes, run by VA Office of Research and Development at 1 site in United States.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 3 inclusion and 3 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 7 Nov 2024. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

Yes. Results are posted in the registry (first posted 5 Jul 2024). A summary is in the For doctors view, and the full results are on ClinicalTrials.gov.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Change in Diabetes Distress Screening Scale (DDS17) (time frame: Baseline, Month 3, Month 6). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT04041375, which also lists 6 linked publications.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 7 Nov 2024.

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